Its amusing to witness the arrogance of many here.
The simple fact is that the vast majority of people don't code. They don't do statistical analysis of big data. They don't edit movies. For these tasks - use the appropriate tool to complete those tasks. Which is typically a desktop or high end laptop. For everyone else - a tablet and/or a smart phone will work just fine for their work and play.
I now return you back to your echo chamber and fake outrage.

MG Siegler writes: The PC is over. It will linger, but increasingly as a relic. I now dread using my computer. I want to use a tablet most of the time. And increasingly, I can. I want to use a smartphone all the rest of the time. And I do. The value in the desktop web is increasingly an ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about that joke we all make at restaurants. You know the one. We finish everything on our plate and then the server comes over and asks, “How was everything?” and we say, “Oh it was terrible, we really hated it” while smiling mischievously and gesturing towards the empty...

The key is to build fitness into your lifestyle and daily routine. A trainer (a good one anyways) will definitely help with form and motivation. But its also good to find something you really like. I loath running. But it ends up I love cycling. Which really helps with keeping off the lbs from homemade beer and fatty foods.

Are you more or less likely to quit the gym if you blog about going? This is the question I’m putting forth as I return from the first day of the rest of my life (the 3rd time in 3 years I’ve had the first day of the rest of my life by joining a gym). Here’s what I have going for me this time: a...

The gentleman who authored that misses the point entirely. The meanings of the word "hack" or "hacking" has long been hijacked and no longer means what he thinks it means to the vast majority of people or to journalists. That's been the case for over two decades now.

The term ‘hacker’ warrants re-examining in light of the unravelling News of the World scandal. The circle within which my journalistic persona travels is that of hack/hackers. I am part hacker. I am a data journalism advocate for a developer platform called ScraperWiki. And I am very concerned ab...